Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He gained national prominence as an environmental attorney with Riverkeeper, co-founded the Waterkeeper Alliance, later founded Children's Health Defense, and authored books such as The Real Anthony Fauci. After running as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election, he was confirmed as HHS Secretary in February 2025.
1shows
2appearances
39statements
25resolved
6supported
11contradicted
24%fully supported
388said about them ↓ Everything Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
RFK Jr.: Vaccines are exempt from pre-licensure placebo-controlled trials
“Vaccines are the one medical product that does not have to go through placebo-controlled trials where you test an exposed versus unexposed population prior to licensure”
RFK Jr. is removing his name from 11 battleground state ballots
“I haven't actually terminated my campaign. I suspended it. We've taken ourselves or we're trying to Take ourselves off the ballot in the, in about 11 states, so we'll remain on the ballot in 39 states”
Trump campaign contacted RFK Jr. regarding VP shortly after shooting
“President Trump, you know, reached out to me through this guy, Kelly Maynes, who's a food advocate, say food advocate, about three hours after the shoot, after the shooting in Butler, I got a call from him And he asked me if I was still interested in the, spec…”
RFK Jr.: RFK Sr. immediately suspected CIA involvement in JFK's assassination
“My father who believed his, you know, first reaction when his brother was killed was that the CIA had killed him, and in fact, the first three calls he made on that day, and you know, I was home at the time,”
RFK Jr.: CIA ultimately serves corporate interests in oil, coal, and defense
“The CIA is ultimately working for a, for industry like the oil industry, the coal industry, and the military contract.”
RFK Jr.: 2004 NIH study showed hydroxychloroquine obliterates coronavirus
“We knew ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were working. We knew that since 2004, because the NIH did this study that said hydroxychloroquine obliterates coronavirus.”
RFK Jr.: DTP vaccine killed or injured 1 in 300 kids in US
“It was killing or causing severe brain injury in one out of every 300 kids who got it.”
RFK Jr.: Pharma drugs are America's third leading cause of death
“And also pharmaceutical drugs, the third biggest killer of Americans after cancer and heart attack”
RFK Jr.: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton ordered Elon Musk not to interview Trump
“Two weeks before that, you had this crazy European commissioner, Thierry Breton, saying that he ordering, ordering Elon Musk to not interview Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, the nominee of a, of one of the two major political parties”
RFK Jr.: Coca-Cola is the biggest financial supporter of NAACP
“I think Coca-Cola is the biggest supporter of NAACP”
RFK Jr.: US and Ukraine are hiding 300,000 Ukrainian soldier deaths
“There have been over 300,000. This is something that the U.S. Government and the Ukrainian government have worked hard to hide. The number of casualties, which has been catastrophic. This is the most violent conflict since World War II that's taken place proba…”
RFK Jr. asserts the US broke a pledge not to expand NATO east
“We gave our word that we would not expand NATO one inch to the east, and now we've gone into 13 countries.”
RFK Jr.: U.S. war with China over Taiwan would probably be bloodiest ever
“Because you're committing the country To a war in the future, that would be probably the bloodiest war ever fought.”
RFK Jr.: US spent $16 trillion on COVID lockdowns and got nothing
“We spent 16 trillion dollars on the pandemic, on the lockdown, and again, got nothing in return.”
RFK Jr.: 30 million Americans are starving
“There are thirty million Americans who are starving right now, and that to me is unacceptable, and it's hard to go to people like that.”
RFK Jr.: Lawsuit revealed EPA pesticide head secretly worked for Monsanto
“When we sued EPA we got discovery documents. That showed that the head of the pesticide division, Jess Rowland, had been secretly working for Monsanto for a decade. And, you know, sending memos back and forth with Monsanto, directing them, you need to kill thi…”
RFK Jr.: Federal law prohibits vaccine EUAs if an effective drug exists
“There's a little known federal law that says if there is a drug that is shown effective against the target disease, it is ill, a drug that is approved for any purpose. It is illegal. To issue an emergency use authorization for a vaccine.”
RFK Jr.: US chronic disease rate rose from 6% to 54% by 2006
“We went from having six percent of Americans affected by chronic disease to 54% by 2006.”
RFK Jr.: Bill Gates and WHO give DTP vaccine to 161M African kids annually
“We stopped it here, they stopped in Europe, but Bill Gates and WHO are still giving it to a hundred and sixty one million African children every year.”
RFK Jr.: Biological males should not compete on women's sports teams
“I do not believe that, ah, that somebody who was born a biological man should be able to compete later on in life, whatever choice they made on a woman's team.”
RFK Jr.: Minors should not get gender surgery without parental consent
“Within that framework, I don't believe that it's that a child without their parental permission should be allowed to choose that kind of surgery because.”
RFK Jr.: US builds $1B stealth bombers that cannot fly in rain
“Right now we're making stealth bombers for a billion dollars that cannot fly in the rain.”
RFK Jr. claims over 320 medical experts fact-check all his posts
“So we have over 320 MD physicians, PhD scientists on my advisory board who see everything that goes out. And everything that I posted on Instagram was cited or sourced to a government database or peer-reviewed publication.”
The other half of the tape: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 367 times in 75 episodes across the shows. 21 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 112Chamath Palihapitiya 99David Sacks 69David Friedberg 61Howard Lutnick 4Tony Robbins 3Dean Phillips 3Travis Kalanick 2
Statements about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., by other people (21)
Chamath considers RFK Jr. better than all other 2024 presidential candidates
“But then you're left with a blended expected value where you're like, man, this guy is really better than all the other alternatives.”
Sacks says Roger Ailes admitted TV networks blocked anti-pharma news
“He mentioned that he had been friends way back with Roger Ailes. And Roger Ailes specifically told him. That they could not post certain or televised certain content if it was too critical of pharma companies because they were the number one advertiser.”
Cruz predicts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be confirmed as HHS Secretary
“I think he makes it through.”
Hoffman says he instructed funded groups against blocking RFK Jr. ballot access
“I wouldn't be surprised if we look at all the money that goes to all the different organizations, if Organization X kind of had some kind of ballot thing. My voice instruction was always like, no, no, no, don't do that. That's anti-democratic.”
Chamath: RFK Jr. leads all 2024 candidates in poll favorability
“He is, in terms of favorability in the polls, he's the leading 20 24 candidate right now.”
Chamath: Democratic Party is railroading RFK Jr.'s presidential candidacy
“But I think it's been pretty clear that the Democrats have chosen to railroad RFK's candidacy.”
Sacks: Would certainly support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over Donald Trump
“I would certainly take Kennedy over Trump.”
Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks host a fundraiser for RFK Jr.
“Sachs and I are doing this fundraiser for RFK.”
Friedberg: RFK Jr. might be a stronger anti-Biden candidate than Trump
“And that's partially why I think maybe he has a shot at being the anti-Biden Alternative, more so perhaps in this go around than Trump is.”
Johnson: RFK Jr. will challenge status quo power and force reconfiguration
“I think he is going to challenge status quo power. And I think that's going to create a lot of conflict and a lot of reconfiguration.”
RFK Jr. told Friedberg podcast appearance changed trajectory of his campaign
“He showed great appreciation, and he was so, he was extremely effusive about coming on Be All in Pod, and he said it really did change the trajectory of the campaign for me, and it made a huge impact on my life.”
Sacks: RFK Jr. is right on regulatory capture and state-corporate greed
“He's right about the regulatory capture. He's right about the marriage of state power and corporate greed.”
Calacanis reveals he plans to vote for RFK Jr. in 2024
“I think I'm RFK all the way. I think I gotta go for just try to support independence.”
Friedberg: Speakers declined All-In Summit over hosts' RFK support and insults
“That did happen, and specifically the fact that you- That's really open-minded. Yeah. And then there were other folks who were insulted by things that were said about them by people on the show.”
Sacks praises RFK Jr. as an authentic rebel against Democratic orthodoxy
“And for him to deviate From Democratic Party orthodoxy and elite thinking in all these really significant ways shows that he is, again, very principled, very authentic, and I think a rebel in a really good way.”
Chamath: RFK Jr.'s core political ideals are incredible and uncontroversial
“His ideals are quite, they're incredible. Free speech, supporting the rule of law. Burgeoning the middle class. I mean, these are not things that are really controversial in the end.”
Sacks: RFK Jr.'s candidacy reflects a historic pro-peace Democratic Party
“But the biggest reason why I think his candidacy is so interesting and relevant is that it harkens back to a democratic party that believed in peace instead of war, free speech and civil liberties instead of censorship.”
Chamath: RFK Jr. is wrong about nuclear energy
“In fact, there are things like nuclear, which I just think he's wrong about.”
Friedberg: Federal budget debt is not a concrete part of RFK Jr.'s platform
“It's clear that that's not really a concrete part of his platform, nor is it, by the way, for any other candidate that I've seen so far.”
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2026 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
- Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 61 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC
- Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
- H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 112 mentions in 29 episodes 4 per episode
- Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- 2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
- Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 187 mentions in 23 episodes 8 per episode
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- In conversation with Dean Phillips
- E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Robert's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | 2 | 39 | 24% 6/25 | full record on All-In → |